Archive for June 2020

As a part of the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2018, NOAA Fisheries is able to provide the Pacific, Gulf, and Atlantic coasts an additional $3 million per year to assist improvement of data collection for recreational fisheries through state partnerships. NOAA fisheries Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) helps to improve data collection through…

In an interview with Geoffrey White, Director of the Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program (ACCSP). The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC) highlights the effects of COVID – 19 on the For-Hire Electronic Reporting and dockside data from fishermen. ACCSP is responsible for the commercial and recreational data collection for all the states from Maine…